{"id":13521,"date":"2015-12-09T13:51:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T13:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=13521"},"modified":"2015-12-09T13:51:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T13:51:10","slug":"officer-firefighter-hailed-as-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=13521","title":{"rendered":"Officer, firefighter hailed as heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read the full report HERE\u203a\u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

COLUMBUS, Miss. (WTVA<\/a>) \u2014 A Columbus police officer and firefighter are being called a hero today.<\/p>\n

Officer Mo Eguries and Battalion Chief J. R. Lancaster arrived simultaneously at a fire at Crest Apartments at 601 5th<\/sup> Avenue North shortly after 8:30 Thursday night. They saw smoke coming from an apartment and \u00a0a neighbor said they thought the middle-aged woman was still inside.<\/p>\n

When they heard faint cries for help, they kicked in the door and were greeted by flames licking the roof from a burning couch and thick, black smoke. They saw a figure walking toward them, grabbed her by the shoulders and got her out.<\/p>\n

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Another minute or two and it could have been a tragedy.<\/p>\n

The woman was covered in soot and suffered burns to her hands. Eguries brushed off the hero label.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe citizens expect us to serve and protect them at all times. When you are faced with adversity we are expected to react. I did what I think everybody else would do, there was somebody inside who was crying for help so I did what I had to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Firefighters think the woman fell asleep while smoking and set the couch on fire.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read the full report HERE\u203a\u203a COLUMBUS, Miss. (WTVA) \u2014 A Columbus police officer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13523,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13521\/revisions\/13523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}